Research and Development (R&D) stories
Dreame broadens smart home push with more than 20 products in San Francisco, led by bionic robotic arm tech across appliances.
xReality Group's US defence push lifts annual recurring revenue 67% to GBP £5.6 million as quarterly cashflow turns positive at GBP £1.3 million.
Melbourne startup Cortical Labs turns its biological computer from prototype to product, opening a global cloud service and Singapore data centre deal.
Backbase wins Forrester Leader status and customer favourite as its AI-native Banking OS gains traction with more than 120 banks worldwide.
Temenos wins Forrester leader status in digital banking after review praised its app support, APIs, localisation and headless architecture.
InDebted founder Josh Foreman steps back from day-to-day leadership as the debt collection software group posts record growth and hunts a new Chief Executive.
EY recruits senior AI engineers in the UK and Ireland to embed governance and compliance as clients push projects from pilots into live use.
Mars broadens Google Cloud tie-up, making Gemini Enterprise the core AI layer for employees as it pushes unified search, custom agents and faster workflows.
LemFi to create London hub with GBP £100 million UK investment as fintech expands compliance, hiring and product development.
NAB taps George Mathews to head its first AI Science team, as the bank builds in-house expertise to safely scale new digital tools.
HTX and NCS expand their engineering pact to develop robotics, drones, quantum-safe security and AI systems for Singapore's Home Team.
British Business Bank joins Sovereign AI Fund in USD $1.1 billion seed round for Ineffable Intelligence, led by Professor David Silver.
NZ businesses using AI could be earning far more, with Deloitte Access Economics finding sizeable revenue lifts and rising spending on the technology.
BAND secures USD $17 million seed backing to build an interaction layer for multi-agent AI systems, as firms seek better oversight and interoperability.
Locai Labs signs contract to install a domain-specific AI coding assistant inside First Light Fusion's air-gapped Oxford systems.
SAS deepens UK AI investment with Glasgow research hub funding and free training access for workers, students and apprentices.
MongoDB to expand Irish operations with EUR €74m investment, 200 new roles and a second site in Cork as it ramps up AI work.
British Business Bank increases backing for Northern Gritstone as new investors join GBP £20 million fundraising round for university spinouts.
Queensland researchers find large language models can show partisan bias in hate-speech moderation, despite similar overall accuracy.
Hiring and pay rise across UK science and technology SMEs, with Gen Z workers leading growth as job gains spread beyond London.